Jason G. Butterfield

Pay attention to the language coming from the U.S. Canada is mocked. Belittled. Called weak, dishonest, ungrateful. We’re supposedly taking advantage of the U.S. Make us the enemy. Then whatever comes next becomes easier to justify. This language comes before the violence. Every fucking time.

Morning. Chow stays. Tedjo wins Mississauga; Brass wins Halton Hills. First Nations chiefs want a shared path beyond the Indian Act. PM Carney sees U.S. trade movement. Midterms looming. We'll see. Nearly 140,000 Ontario students held mock elections. Democracy takes practice. Coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

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Morning. Toronto votes today, 10–8. I’ve voted locally. Get off your asses. VOTE! B.C. chose a Conservative majority. Let’s see what you bought. Trump promises a Canada deal “soon.” Midterms must be close. Sudbury raised $192K for Easter Seals. Put the coffee down and vote. Coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

🚨 CANADA: Your bank balance should NEVER decide whether you get medical care. Something we can’t afford to lose. Demand enforcement of the Canada Health Act. Make every government answer for it. SIGN. CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL. SHARE THE FUCK OUT OF IT. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Two Canadian networks, two approaches to digital sovereignty: Gander's AT Protocol infrastructure and EH!'s local-community focus. I support both and have questions for both. #offprint New article: jasonbu.online/writing/3myn...

Morning. Trump eases tariffs ahead of the midterms. Convenient. Hoekstra’s offer to help our injured soldiers, through Poilievre, feels like PR. Still, help is welcome. Families first. I care. B.C. votes today. Toronto, Monday. Canadian science keeps delivering. Wear a poppy. Coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. PM Carney’s talking trade in Türkiye. We keep diversifying. Russia bombs Kyiv while talking peace. Trump thinks wind turbines threaten national security. What a circus. And, Oakville’s recruiting volunteers and the Legion’s centennial Poppy Campaign begins. It’s Friday. Coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. U.S. tariffs are fine; Canada defending itself is election interference. Convenient bloody definition. [sips coffee] $8.7B pledged for tariff-hit industries. Workers need follow-through. Stratford’s raising funds for homes for women and children escaping violence. Coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Cheesed off: a U.S. cheese importer is suing over Trump’s Canada tariffs. His bullshit has a shelf life. PM Carney’s heading to Turkey. Keep widening our options. B.C. votes Saturday. Toronto votes Monday. Vote. Students near North Bay grow food for neighbours. Coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Albertans chose Canada. Separatists, sit down or pack your bags. B.C., look south before marking that ballot. Russia bombs Ukrainian civilians. Stop! U.S. squeezes Canada. Neighbours’ sovereignty deserves better. Volunteers keep feeding neighbours. We keep showing up. Coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Back from Ottawa. Alberta votes. No to the 9. Yes to Stay. Trump eases pressure on Russia. WTH? Canadians planting trees. Good people doing the work. Heartbreaking news from CFB Wainwright. Thinking of everyone affected. Check in on your people. Coffee's on. ☕🇨🇦 We've got this.

Thinking of everyone at CFB Wainwright this morning. My heart goes out to those we’ve lost, the injured, their families, and everyone waiting for news. To everyone in uniform, look after each other. Check in on your people. Nobody needs to carry this alone. 🇨🇦

Morning. Over 800,000 Albertans have voted. Keep going. Put this separatist bullshit to bed. Steelworkers need action on Stelco, not more threats. Meanwhile, folks in Acton give away 200 refurbished bikes each spring. Getting people somewhere. Politicians could try it. Friday. Coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Trump wants a 51st state. Hoekstra says stay out of U.S. politics. Hypocrisy thick as Thanksgiving gravy. Buy Canadian. Holiday here. Alberta, vote the separatist crap down. Aurora Foods gave $60,000 to fix Second Harvest’s food trucks. That’s Canada. Turn up the noise. Coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Storms rolling through. Feels like 28? Oct's confused. Ukraine hit Russian Yandex data centres. Bot claims unproven. Even I got caught up in it. Trump eases Russian diesel sanctions while Ukraine gets bombed. Seriously? Meanwhile, Canadians fed thousands over Thanksgiving. Coffee's on.

My wife deployed a 45-minute tether protocol this morning. I am allowed to write, but if I don't report back, she assumes a hyper-focused containment breach has occurred and the turkey prep is doomed. Who else has a brain like this?

Currently operating under a strict 45-minute tether protocol enforced by my wife. Left unchecked, I will hyperfocus on a manuscript and forget Thanksgiving prep exists. I get the credit for the writing, but she's the one managing the collateral damage of my brain.

Morning. Hurricane leftovers may join Thanksgiving. Lovely (be safe.) Livestreamed execution? WTF! USA?!! Trump wants Russian diesel while Ukraine fights for survival. Again WTF, USA? Meanwhile, Canadian students and volunteers cook for neighbours. Keep doing the work. FFS, coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Chilly start on the train into TO. PM Carney pushed back on Musk. Washington’s still holding firm on tariffs. Russia’s attacks killed civilians in Ukraine. Some good news: Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize, Toronto volunteers are helping people in crisis. Happy Thanksgiving. Coffee’s on. 🇨🇦

Morning. Storms overnight. Warmer today. Musk suggests breaking up Canada. Moe says no. Smith no? Mi. Rogers wants Trump's tariffs gone. Hurts, eh? U.S. pressures allies over a conference on its interference. Oh, the irony. Wab Kinew speaks French in Manitoba. Imagine that, eh? Coffee's on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Feels like −2. Email warning would’ve been nice, October. PQ minority. Roughly 28% isn’t a vote to leave Canada. But another separatist distraction. B.C. votes Oct. 24. Look south, folks. Don't import the bullshit. Canada honours 60 educators. Still people doing the work. Coffee’s on. ☕

Morning. Rain finally broke the 14-day dry spell. Trump says Canada is being “taught a little lesson.” What's that? Oh, the U.S. is untrustworthy. Noted. Canada keeps building elsewhere, NATO stays calm, and Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk heads for the ISS. Coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

Aanii. Miigwech. Hello, and thank you. On this day of Truth and Reconciliation, I honour survivors, remember those lost, and commit to the ongoing work of truth before reconciliation. 🧡🪶☕

Morning. Gorgeous out. My watch says take it easy. New U.S. bans on Canadian goods start Tuesday. A poll says 70% of Albertans want to stay in Canada. Show up. Joan Jack won her case over work for day school survivors. 🧡 I can’t control others. I can decide how I show up here. Coffee’s on. ☕

Great read and lots of ideas in here worthy of discussion. In particular what to payments look like for content creators and systems that enable that content to be found.

Morning. Wee chilly out there. B.C. Cons lose their leader after 13 MLAs leave. Healthy. PM talks Arctic security with Norway, meets Pres. Macron in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. India talks move too. Parliament’s back. Expect opposition to oppose. 46th Terry Fox Run yesterday. Coffee’s on. ☕

@gandersocial.ca and @eurosky.social getting closer isn’t interesting because ATProto suddenly discovered interoperability. It didn’t. What’s interesting is two distinct communities deciding how they want to use it while keeping their own infrastructure, moderation and identity.

Hey Aussie and Kiwi cousins? Is there like a Canadian Gander or European EuroSky Mu? But for down under? Just wondering? You know fet your data out of the BlueSky PDS and into a sovereign instance? 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇦🇺🇳🇿

Morning, fellow potential European associates. 👋🇨🇦🇪🇺 Apparently becoming better friends is now a “hostile act.” in some mutton's minds, Meh. Happen to catch PM Carney's speech today? Defence, sovereignty, sport, art, people. Coffee’s on. Tastes bloody good this morning.☕🇨🇦

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The EU has delivered greater stability across the continent, greater mobility for its citizens, and a single market that gives Europe global economic weight. An honour to hear President von der Leyen address the European Parliament today as we build a deeper partnership for the future.

Canada as the EU’s first “associate member” is one hell of a sentence to wake up to. The details aren’t there yet, but deeper ties on trade, defence, energy and technology? This is good, and odd as we figure out the relationship. I'm here for it. Very strange times. Very interesting times. ☕🇨🇦🇪🇺

Morning. Calgary-Shaw: more of this. No to 9. Yes to stay. Bell proposes a $50B sovereign data hub. I wrote about why that matters. Trump dropped salt tariff. Needed us after all. Alert Bay’s pole came down. Its people stand. Poilievre’s misinformation isn’t opposition. It’s noise. Smarten up. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Canada pitches stability to global investors. "We have what the world wants.", PM Carney. Ireland saved its whiskey. Maith sibh! Russia hit the Kyiv–Warsaw train; Trump scolded Ukraine. Canada eyes an EU Ukraine loan, not membership. Sovereign-site post is up. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

Someone asked where I host my site. Fair question, given how much I write about Canadian sovereignty. The answer: it’s more Canadian than it was, less sovereign than I’d like, and still has a few foreign cables attached. So I opened the box. “Assembled in Canada.”

Morning. Turnip calls our tariffs discriminatory, then bans our goods. Fair trade means Canada does as it’s told, apparently. AP: still Lake Ontario. Space Force found the Empire’s tailor. Very ’30s. Iceland summoned the ambassador. Gander, take note. Respect goes both ways. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Canada’s $27.6B counter-tariffs are live. A non-meme response. Trump threatens Bombardier. Its 3,500 U.S. workers and 2,800 suppliers would like a word. Reste forte, Québec. Sapporo shifts some production south. Sleeman stays. Trust burns faster than it rebuilds. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

I added a new section to my site: Buy Canadian. 🇨🇦 It’s not meant to be a giant directory. Think of it as a waypoint for Canadian resources, directories and places to start when you want to spend, build and support here. Have something I should add? Drop it in the comments and I’ll check it out.

Morning. Labour Day. Canadian wool is walking away from the U.S. Investors with trillions arrive here looking for stability. Turnip thinks Ottawa sets the dollar before coffee. 85% back walking from his “deal.” Putin: leave Ukraine. Pay for what you broke. Saxony-Anhalt… yikes. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

I’ve been spending a little more time on @gandersocial.ca . The feed feels different. People tell stories. Founders answer questions. Bugs get called bugs. Chapman’s posts about ice cream. I wrote about why that matters to me, and why digital sovereignty is more than where we park the servers.

Morning. Bombardier gets Mississauga wing plant. Build here. PP: stay in Canada, vote Liberal out. Almost. Albertans: vote. Hamilton: 29%. Counter-tariffs Monday. A deal isn’t caving. Turnip doesn’t need Canada? Four million oil barrels daily disagree. Gander: Hoekstra for 9/11? No. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Long weekend. TO bound. New $20: King, Vimy, Indigenous plants. Toronto cleans up after a “100-year” storm. Once-a-century needs an asterisk. 👀 Snowbirds bow out at Grey Cup. Hamilton: NDP + Liberal > PC. Math. Be smarter. $4.7B VIA cars built here. Bye U.S. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Yikes. Some storm, eh. UNEP says we’ll overshoot 1.5°C. The GTA got the field lesson. Hegseth mocks Canadian cadets. Clooney: where’s decency? Dani’s off to Tennessee. What trade war? PM invests in manufacturing. Resilience is built. Cree and Métis voices take TIFF. 🪶 Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. PM Carney: talks resume when U.S. trades memes for adults. “That’s their democracy.” Expect more. Hegseth mocks cadets. Loses leaders. Apple caves on Lake Ontario. Android time. Germany says Russia sent a drone near a Ukrainian plane in Leipzig. Dani omission. No respect. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦